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Prometheus Sequel won't be written by Lindelof

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Just posted this [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/news/470]here[/url] - Damon Lindelof confirms he will [b]NOT[/b] be involved in Ridley Scott's follow-up to [b]Promethues[/b], potentially titled [b]Paradise[/b] or [b]Prometheus 2[/b]. Here's an excerpt: "[i]The thing about Prometheus was it was a rewrite. Jon Spaihts wrote a script and I rewrote it. And still it was a year of my life that I spent on Prometheus, kind of all in. The idea of building a sequel to it—from the ground up this time—with Ridley is tremendously exciting. But at the same time, I was like, "Well that's probably going to be two years of my life." I can’t do what J.J. [Abrams] does. I don’t have the capability. I'm usually very single-minded creatively. I can only be working on one thing at a time. So I said to him, "I really don’t think I could start working on this movie until I do this other stuff. And I don’t know when the other stuff is going to be done." And he was like, "Well, okay, it's not like I asked you anyways." He and I are on excellent terms and it was a dream come true to work with him. But much to the delight of all the fanboys, I don’t see myself being involved in Prometheus-er.[/i]" You can read more [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/news/470]here, on Prometheus-Movie.com[/url]. The interview was conducted over at [i]Collider[/i] - see our news post for original source links. But what do you think about Lindelof not being involved in [b]Prometheus 2[/b]?

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aintnozeno, Prenihility and PatrickNerd... I have nothing to add. You've already summed it up!
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Lindelof came to (a) polish, (b) improve Spaihts script. so goes the explanation here. all I would add is that Lindelof must never read Scientific American or anything to do with astrophysics, biology, genetics or evolution. there are so many holes in his pseudo-science of 2093 that one thinks he went to school a hundred years before today in 2013. Just this mess up as a starter: can't get to the next star system in 2 yrs ... unless you travel faster than light ( Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light yrs from here & this sun is the closest to ours). secondly, even if you did travel faster than light, even if ... then the time passed on Earth would be thousands of years, if not more. not even a footnote en passant regarding this minor matter.... finally, there is a myriad of other pseudo-science nonsense in Prometheus. this script by Lindelof is not even SciFi ... it is only pseudo SciFi ... too bad too, since with a little help from 1 single Physics postgrad student these technical or scientific embarrassments could have been easily avoided.
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This is not good news, from my point of view. Lindelof was the one responsible for creating the characters we came to love and also the subtextual themes that underline the routine monster-movie structure of Prometheus. Will the new fellow be as attentive to detail and implication? Will he spoonfeed everything that was left intentionally vague? With Scott overseeing everything, I'd like to think "no", but I'm a natural pessimistic.
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I think that is a good thing. Is style is too much close to the fantasy science-fiction and not enough to the realistic and horrific reality of a masterpiece of horror movie. Prometheus was incredible graphically. But we just waiting all the movie that something scary was happening. He as an incredible capacity of imagination, but is not enough close to the "dark side" as to understand what is bad in to the humain feeling to express it in to a script. So we do hope that someone will appear like Dan O'Bannon for the script and Hans Ruedi Giger for the design.
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